Eerie, Ethereal, Moody, Involving Soundtracks

Blade Runner is one of my favorites.

Brad Day
Atlanta, GA

Try Phillip Glass's re-scoring for the original "Dracula" with Bela Lugosi, performed by the Kronos Quartet.

If you haven't got it already this CD will twist your head and stretch your rig. Beware of imitations; the original says Produced by David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti on the back:

Soundtrack from Twin Peaks/Angelo Badalamenti
Warner Bros 9 26316-2.

For a long ride into a deep space labyrinth try this double CD:

Heinz Holliger/Scardanelli-Zyklus
ECM New Series 1472/73

The choral parts of these scary, floating compositions remind me of the freakiest, unexplainable parts of Stanley Kubrick's film 2001.

Bernard Hermann's score to "Night Digger", a polished little Gothic thriller from early '70's is a favorite. Hermann did a number of musical soundtracks for Alfred Hitchcock, including "Psycho". If I am not mistaken, he also collaborated with Orsen Welles on the infamous radio broadcast of "The War of the Worlds".

Label"X"(Cinema Maestro) LXCD 12

Morton Subotnick composed "The Key to Songs" to accompany the ballet based on a wordless novel by Max Ernst, the surrealist painter. Very troubling to listen to. On same disc and in similar vein is "Return", a triumph of reason,
about the ageless superstition and wild speculation surrounding pre-modern notions about Halley's comet. Compelling, not for casual listening.

New Albion Records NAO12

More later.

One more.

"Remedies In Heresies" by Elijah's Mantle. This is music to accompany a film called "Philosophy With A Hammer". Too complex to explain musical character and context, but certainly non-secular, modern and majestically scary in old testiment kind of way. One of the CD label detail credits (photo) is called "The Damned In Hell"

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